OT-Square Root Day

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If 10 + 10 = 100, it's a computer.

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1111 1110 = -2 1111 1111 = -1 0000 0000 = 0 0000 0001 = 1 0000 0010 = 2

0000 0001 - 0000 0010 = 1111 1111

You are still wasting a bit and you are really thinking in decimal, not binary. Obviously you are new in the computer biz. I was around when a bit cost about a hundred dollars. We didn't waste them.

2 bit slots (10) represents 4 states 0 = people who don't understand binary 1 = people who do understand binary 10 = people who think they understand binary 11 = people who don't give a s*it anymore 11 here

Of course.

4 * 4 == 2016 % 2000;

Cindy Hamilton

Most programmers are tetched in the head. ?

Jeff Wisnia wrote in news: _OidnQAZZoGlJJ snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com:

Depends on how you write (and interpret) the dates, e.g. 2025 = 45^2, so we might say it will happen again on 4/5/2025.

I've been in the computer biz for 39 years.

You're thinking about states.

The original statement was about a number, the number of kinds of people. 0 may be a state, but it doesn't represent a kind of people.

There are two (10) kinds of people, those who understand binary and those who don't.

Who says? Maybe those are the ones who DO understand it.

My point is that if you want to create a new discussion, you can do that. but the original discussion was about 10 (two) kinds of people, not two states one of which could be zero. Zero is not a kind of person.

It's not funny to write there is one state (01) in addition to the zero state, of people, the state of understanding and the state of not understanding. That's not funny. It's not a joke.

Those who are arguing with you aren't doing so because they are they are thinking in decimal but because they are thinking in humor.

And 2025 also has an integral square root (45).

2254 7279 206E 6577 2050 6F73 7420 4A65 7375 7320 2874 6D29 2062 7265 616B 6661 7374 2063 6572 6561 6C21 2043 686F 636B 2066 756C 6C20 6F66 2062 6C61 6E64 2C0D 0A74 6173 7465 6C65 7373 206C 6974 746C 6520 6272 6561 6420 7761 6665 7273 206D 6164 6520 6672 6F6D 2031 3030 2520 4A65 7375 7320 666F 7220 7468 6174 2066 756C 6C2D 626F 6479 206F 660D 0A43 6872 6973 7420 7461 7374 652E 2047 6F65 7320 6772 6561 7420 7769 7468 2061 206C 6974 746C 6520 7265 6420 7769 6E65 2E22

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There are 10 types of people in the world: -those who understand ternary -those who don't -those who were expecting the binary joke

Most programmers are tetched in the head.

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To what?

To Text (*.txt). (Hint: It's very much ON TOPIC and fitting for this newsgroup!)

Due to AIOE's quoting limit, I could not quote the whole thing. Go back to the original post.

Well that explains it. By 1977 bits were cheap. In 1965 we did not have the luxury of wasting 2 bits to describe 2 things.

In 1965 it would have required one vacuum tube for every bit.

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